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Date: Wednesday, 18 March 2009, 6:30 PM Location: Hewlett Packard (see directions), Pruneridge and Wolfe, Cupertino, Bldg. 48, Oak Room. Cost: Free and open to all who wish to attend, but membership is only $20/year. |
Topic
Join Google Policy Analyst Derek Slater to discuss the state of broadband policy in the U.S and the importance of sustaining the Internet as an open platform for consumer choice and end-user innovation. Slater will provide an overview of possible legislation to ensure robust access to the open Internet. He'll also present two novel ideas that could help transform broadband policy in fundamental ways: customer ownership of last mile fiber, and Measurement Lab, a new research platform for broadband testing tools.
About the Speaker
Derek Slater is a Policy Analyst on Google's public policy team. He focuses
principally on copyright law and telecom policy. He helped Vint Cerf found the
Measurement Lab research platform and he coauthored the paper "Homes With Tails,"
about customer-owned last mile fiber
Prior to joining Google in September 2007, he was the
Electronic Frontier Foundation's Activism Coordinator, helping the public take
action to defend their digital rights. Derek joined
EFF's staff after graduating in January 2006
from Harvard College with a B.A. cum laude in Government. He was also a
researcher at Harvard Law School's
Berkman Center for Internet and Society,
becoming the first undergraduate to be named a student fellow and contributing
to several papers on
copyright law and
digital media. He has also interned for
Creative Commons and the Samuelson Clinic for Law, Technology, and Public Policy
at UC Berkeley Law School.
Derek's work has been discussed in publications including the
Washington Post,
CNET,
and
The Boston Globe. Along with authoring his own blog
A Copyfighter's Musings, he has contributed to other sites including Paidcontent.org.